Footing it in Franconia

by Bradford Torrey

INDEX

INDEX

Adder’s-mouth, [149].
Arbutus, trailing, [57], [91], [133].
Aster Lindleyanus, [5], [181].
Azalea, Lapland, [140].
Beech-fern, [146].
Blueberries, alpine, [24].
Bluebird, [123], [125], [209], [210], [234].
Bobolink, [97], [110], [117], [213].
Butterflies, [10], [28], [36], [123], [145], [172].
Catbird, [29], [106], [117], [189], [191].
Cedar-bird, [15], [187].
Cherry, wild red, [79], [130], [148], [211];
rum, [183].
Chickadee, black-capped, [13], [15], [16], [22], [72], [83], [94], [170], [191];
Hudsonian, [15], [53].
Chokeberry, [133].
Chokecherry, yellow, [181].
Cicada, [54].
Clintonia, [164], [231].
Coltsfoot, [67].
Cornel, dwarf, [57], [122], [133], [150], [163], [231].
Creeper, brown, [129], [138].
Crossbill, red, [19], [194], [228];
white-winged, [19].
Crow, [11], [97], [210].
Cuckoo, black-billed, [145].
Finch, pine, [126], [144], [170], [228];
purple, [117].
Fleas, [32].
Flowers, alpine, [140].
Flycatcher, alder, [105], [125], [148], [214], [230], [240];
crested, [99], [125], [210], [214];
least, [212], [213], [214];
olive-sided, [101], [105], [130], [169], [212], [214];
yellow-bellied, [101], [215].
Fox, [58].
Goldfinch, [72], [172], [189], [191], [211].
Goldthread, [57], [83], [133], [150], [231].
Grosbeak, rose-breasted, [86], [117], [127].
Grouse, [27], [101], [192], [205], [210], [211].
Hardhack, [155].
Hawk, sparrow, [240].
Hobble-bush, [13], [130].
Houstonia, [133].
Humming-bird, [160], [205].
Hyla, [192].
Indigo-bird, [159].
Kinglet, golden-crowned, [138], [192], [246];
ruby-crowned, [29], [66], [72], [192].
Kingfisher, [16].
Lady’s-slipper, pink, [108], [133];
yellow, [111], [235].
Lark, meadow, [115];
prairie horned, [162], [166], [195], [217], [234].
Lonesome Lake, [11].
Martin, purple, [117].
Maryland yellow-throat, [72], [125], [145], [189].
Merganser, [221].
Mountain ash, [17].
Mountain holly, [163], [231].
Nuthatch, red-breasted, [17], [121], [194];
white-breasted, [189], [213], [216].
Oriole, [117].
Oven-bird, [125], [143], [216].
Owl, barred, [22].
Phœbe, [191], [209].
Raspberry, [151], [162].
Rhodora, [85], [133].
Robin, [13], [22], [74], [117], [170], [189], [191].
Salix balsamifera, [6], [41], [85], [155].
Sandpiper, solitary, [89], [115], [170].
Sandwort, Greenland, [25].
Sapsucker, [68], [148], [183], [184], [189], [215], [230].
Shadbush, [80], [83], [91], [133], [211].
Shadbush, few-flowered, [91], [133].
Siskin, pine, [126], [144], [170], [228].
Snowbird, [14], [15], [63], [240].
Sparrow, chipping, [77];
English, [118];
field, [77], [116], [117], [159], [189];
fox, [57];
Lincoln’s, [68], [74], [77];
savanna, [78];
song, [72], [74], [77], [117], [123], [159], [170], [189], [191], [210];
swamp, [74], [172];
vesper, [8], [44], [51], [116], [117], [123], [160], [191];
white-crowned, [74], [77], [114], [194];
white-throated, [13], [15], [25], [57], [66], [74], [83], [93], [130], [148], [160], [170], [189], [191].
Spiders, [31].
Spring-beauty, [88], [89].
Swallow, bank, [117];
barn, [97], [117], [118], [152], [159], [234], [240];
cliff, [117];
tree, [117].
Swift, [134], [240].
Tanager, [72], [101], [117], [126].
Thorn-bush, [180].
Thrush, gray-cheeked, [117];
hermit, [14], [21], [29], [30], [39], [80], [113], [115], [117], [148], [159], [165], [191], [237];
olive-backed (Swainson’s), [14], [21], [22], [101], [117], [144], [189], [193];
water, [105];
Wilson’s (veery), [101], [110], [115], [117];
wood, [112], [117], [126], [127].
Toad, [131].
Trillium, painted, [83], [133].
Violet, dog-tooth, [89];
round-leaved, [88], [89], [130];
Selkirk’s, [122], [135].
Vireo, Philadelphia, [189], [190];
red-eyed, [18], [72], [116], [144], [159], [170], [210];
solitary, [8], [66], [68], [72], [117], [148], [189], [191];
warbling, [120];
yellow-throated, [115], [214].
Warbler, bay-breasted, [72], [73], [87], [94];
Blackburnian, [86], [87], [94], [135];
black-and-white, [104];
blackpoll, [72], [142];
black-throated blue, [126];
black-throated green, [72], [189];
blue yellow-backed, [127], [216];
Canada, [101], [230];
Cape May, [94], [102], [103], [106], [107], [111], [198], [217];
chestnut-sided, [72], [73], [170];
magnolia, [101], [127], [144];
mourning, [112], [128];
myrtle, [68], [72], [143], [144], [189], [211], [240];
Nashville, [127], [189], [213];
Tennessee, [41], [92], [101], [102], [103], [105];
Wilson’s black-cap, [114].
Woodchuck, [61], [86], [96].
Wood pewee, [169], [214].
Woodpecker, arctic three-toed, [14];
downy, [68];
golden-winged, [16], [68], [72];
hairy, [41];
pileated, [45], [99], [156], [183], [193], [234].
Wood-sorrel, [167].
Wren, winter, [10], [57], [72], [90], [117].

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] The species was not new. A Maine collector had anticipated her, I believe. Whether his name was given to the flea I did not learn or have forgotten.

[2] The Atlantic Monthly.

[3] “I named it Tom’s Finch,” says Audubon, “in honor of our friend Lincoln, who was a great favorite among us.”

[4] But the brightness of red-maple groves at this season is mostly not in the leaves, but in the fruit.

[5] Yes, he has even been seen (and “taken”), so I am told, at the summit of Mount Washington.

[6] No, the line is Coleridge’s:—

“the merry nightingale

That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates

With fast thick warble his delicious notes.”

[7] So I was relieved to find all the Franconia white-throated sparrows introducing their sets of triplets with two—not three—longer single notes. That was how I had always whistled the tune; and I had been astonished and grieved to see it printed in musical notation by Mr. Cheney, and again by Mr. Chapman, with an introductory measure of three notes: as if it were to go, “Old Sam, Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody,” instead of, as I remembered it, and as reason dictated, “Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.” I am not intimating that Mr. Cheney and Mr. Chapman are wrong, but that my own recollection was right,—a very different matter, as my present experience with Tennessee warblers was sufficient to show.

[8] I made the following list of fifty odd species heard and seen either from my windows or from the piazza: bluebird, robin, veery, hermit thrush, olive-backed thrush, chickadee, Canadian nuthatch, catbird, oven-bird, water thrush, chestnut-sided warbler, myrtle warbler, redstart, Nashville warbler, blue yellow-backed warbler, Maryland yellow-throat, warbling vireo, red-eyed vireo, cedar-bird, barn swallow, cliff swallow, sand swallow, tree swallow, goldfinch, purple finch, pine finch, red crossbill, indigo-bird, snowbird, song sparrow, field sparrow, chipping sparrow, vesper sparrow, white-throated sparrow, Baltimore oriole, bobolink, red-winged blackbird, crow, blue jay, kingbird, phœbe, least flycatcher, olive-sided flycatcher, alder flycatcher, great-crested flycatcher, wood pewee, humming-bird, chimney swift, whip-poor-will, flicker, kingfisher, black-billed cuckoo.

[9] The Auk, vol. v. p. 151.

[10] I was once walking over these same miles of sleepers with a bird-loving man, when he recalled a reminiscence of his boyhood. One of his teachers was remarking upon the need of seeking things in their appropriate places. “Now if you wanted to see birds,” he said, by way of illustration, “you wouldn’t go to a railroad track.” “Which is the very place we do go to,” my companion added.

[11] This and the two succeeding chapters are records of a vacation visit in May, 1901.

[12] Four days afterward (August 9) I found larks of the present season in the Landaff Valley, where I had watched their parents with so much pleasure in May, as I have described in a previous chapter. These August birds were feeding upon oats in the road, like so many English sparrows.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.

Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.